#this is my kind of mountain though

[morethanwords229]

i was feeling bad for only writing half a chapter this weekend when i'd been planning to write the whole thing but then i looked at the total word count for the story so far and

i feel better now

[ofdarklands]

Y - Ym

>song

the final of magus' familiars, even in its biggest size it is the stealthiest one. it can perfectly camouflage itself and be completely silent, and as a last resort it's scream is deadly. depending on how close you are it might downright melt you into nothing. unlike the other two, the mind that commands this body was not originally one of magus' creations, so it is both more independent and relatively gentler in its behavior, though still quite inhuman in perspective

it can usually be found in the Salvage, keeping an eye on all the things and creatures that end up there, brought by the universe's eddies. it's a bit of a folk legend for those that are awake there, at this point

as trivia, BEHOLD. basically what my setting's dragons look like, though they're actually living creatures with a proper lifecycle and fancy coloration, unlike magus' familiars. and they have only 2 arms

[clancykisser]

GOD DAMMIT I LOVE MEN

[wolfgang1097]

What's up, it's me, Ari. This may be a bit of a personal ramble, but I cannot help but say that I have had a strange obsession (and crush) on these two dudes for about a year and a half now.

(Screenshots were taken from MADtv).

I can't help but get quite a bit of an adrenaline rush whenever I check out the animated shorts from MADtv and/or check out the paperback strips, a good deal of which I personally wish were made into animated shorts for MADtv way back when. Then again, some of them from the first three paperback books were, from what I realized. Yes, I am one of those folks who wished there were new shorts for season three instead of rerunning the two seasons of the shorts through season five (unless I'm mistaken). There were plenty of ideas to go around and I personally believe that several strips from The Fourth Declassified Files of Spy vs. Spy would have been perfect for season three, along with some select strips from Spy vs. Spy the Follow-Up Files (other than the Tall Bed and Cat's Cradle strips/shorts, from season two), and of course some of the magazine strips plus a few of the one panel opening gags.

Anyway, I was first exposed to these two goofy, cheeky, demented weirdos was thanks to the Mountain Dew commercials, which aired when I was just seven years old, and some of the animated shorts from MADtv, courtesy of my two older sisters because they were fans of some of the live-action characters of the show, especially Stuart Larkin. From what I remember, MADtv frequently aired reruns of their older seasons on Comedy Central when I was a kid in the 2000s.

I don't know why, but whenever I watch the MADtv shorts or check out the magazine and/or the paperback strips (regardless of era), I personally tend to get a mixture of Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead (kind of), and even Jackass vibes. Maybe it's their wild, zany, outrageous, and insanely hilarious antics. They may be insane, but at the end of the day, they split my sides.

Thank you for checking out my ramble. Peace.

I do not claim ownership of any content. Spy vs. Spy belongs to MAD Magazine and Antonio Prohias.

[melit0n]

I wanted to add on to this ask done by an anon on ST confessions, because they are so right and they made something click in my brain. Do go read it before you read this.

First, off, heavy agree that Fall for Me is designed to be a lonely song, both lyrically, and quite smartly, musically. In every single other song Sleep Token has ever done there is music. There is noise, always. Even in times where there should be silence, there never is any. Instead, it's filled by sounds of birds, a taught guitar chord or chewing and biting.

Fall for Me, however, is utter silence. There's no musical reply. No SFX, no subtle drums or bass; no nothing. It's the one of the few songs (along with Missing Limbs, Take Aim and Drag me Under) in which Vessel directly addresses the love he holds for this person. It's not layered in metaphors, prose and an eloquent vernacular, it's straightforward. While his poetry in other songs is used to draw Them in, decorate his love and entice Them, he's done with getting nothing. He wants to be an equal, a lover, but he gets naught.

The reason why, other than the obvious choice of acapella instead of instruments, the song feels so lonely is because it's the only song- overall- that he doesn't get a response to. Sugar is the response to The Offering, Say That You Will is the response to Take Aim etc., but here? Cold, dead silence. No gesture in tongues, no crushing 'affection'; no nothing.

So, to the rhythm of eternity, he will be on that beach, stumbling, crawling and shouting out the same question that he will never get an answer to; won't you fall for me?

However, even though, unlike most songs that get an answer within their album, Vessel gets one in the next. Take Me Back To Eden, therefore, becomes the answer to that question. As well as Vessel's action against it.

@lifemod17 saw you reblog the ask as well, thought you might like this :]

[andysambcrg]

i'm not the biggest fan of sunny s15 because i feel like it was bogged down (literally) by having half the season in ireland and none of the episodes really jump out as being particularly amazing but my god. glenn looks so fucking hot the entire goddamn time.

[autumnblooms]

You’ll be alright

Still not over anxiety ridden Mountain - in reference to this post

[hellothereiplaygames]

Some thoughts on Asra's route...

Replaying Asra's route after having played Muriel's really hits different...

In one of the other routes Asra and Muriel appear to start a romantic relationship, and in Asra's route it's very clear that Muriel cares very deeply for Asra and dislikes the Apprentice. He mentions in one of the paid? dream scenes that he's worried about Asra and the Apprentice fading into their own world and leaving everyone else behind (again, apparently), and that he's determined to stop this from happening. His concern for Asra and initial hostility toward the Apprentice may be rooted in jealousy, not only because his oldest (and only) friend was more or less taken from him, but perhaps with romantic connotations as well.

In Book XI: Justice, Asra and Julian stage a mock trial by combat against Muriel. Though he apparently agreed to participate and is implied to have returned to the Coliseum of his own volition, presumably out of concern for Asra, who has been accused of being Julian's accomplice... he is still more or less backed into a corner and forced to play along with Asra and Julian's plan to stage a fight.

Now, to be fair to Asra, he states after everything goes wrong that it wasn't supposed to end this way, and it appeared that he was attempting to not only exonerate himself and Julian from their charges but somehow help Muriel overcome his past (he does disintegrate Muriel's chains during the fight no matter what choices you make). There was a point during this that I thought I could guess what Asra's plan was regarding Muriel's past, but being refreshed on how it actually pans out, I can't remember it now. Something about making the people of Vesuvia realize how barbaric the Coliseum was under Lucio.

The thing that stands out to me throughout this whole ordeal is that Asra knows about Muriel's trauma. He knows he was enslaved to Lucio and forced to fight and execute people in the Coliseum. He knows that Muriel is terrified of hurting other people, especially those he cares about. In Asra's route, the only person Muriel cares about is Asra, so hurting him is triggering for him. He literally is in a stupor after the board he was using as a weapon splinters off and hits Asra in the mouth, making him bleed. This is clearly meant to make the reader worried about Asra, but Muriel reacts as well, and appears hypnotized by the blood. I remember the first time I read this I thought he was going to have some crazy berserker-Hulk sort of reaction, but having read his route, it's way more tragic.

Though Muriel did seem to return to the Coliseum of his own volition, it does seem that Asra took this as a sign that he was coming to terms with his trauma. He was willing to exploit Muriel's care for him in order to save his own skin so he can be with the Apprentice. Though I recognize Asra's other toxic traits to some degree, I also have similar ones myself so they don't really stand out to me. This, however, where he more or less disregards Muriel's feelings on the matter, is actually really crushing. In Muriel's route, his whole thing is that he DOES NOT want to fight, he DOES NOT want to even spar with the Apprentice with blunt sticks out of fear of hurting them, so why would he willingly go along with this unless he was more or less in the same position Lucio put him in? Fight in the arena, or something bad will happen to Asra.

Asra knows this, and puts him through it regardless. During the whole fight, Julian's actions are written so as to make it seem like he's the one messing things up--he takes the "finishing blow" that Muriel was going to deal to Asra and gets knocked unconscious. Asra spends most of the entire time doing flashy, dramatic magic tricks that get the crowd cheering for him. After he "wins", he and the Apprentice are carried out of the Coliseum like heroes. Though Asra will try to soothe Muriel if the Apprentice so chooses right before the end, and he does look for Muriel in the crowd, he seems otherwise unbothered or unaware of the impact this may be having on his oldest friend. Which is pretty shitty.

Of course, Asra, Julian, and Muriel are all playing characters during their fight--Asra is the flashy magician, Julian is the rogueish BDSM dagger guy, and Muriel is the Scourge. Asra obviously can't show his concern even if he wanted to because he's supposed to be fighting Muriel. But putting his bro into this situation in the first place says a lot about his character. Though Julian is the one whose route is based around self-loathing because he believes he hurts everyone around him, Asra is the only one who gets what he wants out of this ordeal, and he even says so right before the chapter ends. Muriel was forced to relive his trauma and didn't get the resolution that was intended, and Julian gets KOed by a punch that literally sent him flying across the arena (though he probably enjoyed it tbh, he's a nasty little man like that lmao).

I wonder if this dynamic between Asra and Muriel was intentionally written this way in order to further amplify his tunnel vision when it comes to the Apprentice. Is this is how he acted in the past, causing Muriel to hate the Apprentice as he does and remark that he won't allow it to happen again? Maybe (probably) I'm reading too much into it, but as a survivor of abuse and trauma it rubs me the wrong way much more than Asra's obsessive, clingy nature. Of all of the reversed ends, Asra's is the one that actually scared me and kind of haunted me, because it hits a little too close to home.

These are all just thoughts that I wanted to spill out because I thought it was interesting and I wasn't sure if anyone else has talked about it before.

[surreal-duck]

id post more on insta if it were not for the fact. that i have a fair few irls on it like ill already pick and choose what i do put on there and its not like its a secret per se but. i just would not be able to look them in the eye if they knew a good couple years of my life, several art canvases and a portion of my soul has been dedicated to these two random ass guys. same goes for when i meet enstarries irl (which is relatively not that rare) i will simply never mention a word abt mdyz ever. anyways that aside ygs should look at this nugget i fecked up somehow

[gyrovagi]

feel like i mgoing kind of crazy with winter break coming up and family plans and friend plans and wrist bad. what if i just posted the first 2k words of leg amputation fic

[jaysworlds]

cannot relate to how people on this site talk about their bands. i could not recognise a single member of any of the bands that have had a life changing effect on me if i met them on the street. if someone came up to me and said 'hey i wrote that song that made you feel like someone understood you like no one else' i would turn them into a nasty goop or perhaps a paste. and leave

[wlw-cryptid]

If you were to live anywhere with complete access for your disability, would you rather live somewhere urban or rural?

ohhh thats such a good question. but my heart belongs to wherever i can see trees. lots of trees. where you can see rabbits and deer come out at dusk every so often if youre lucky

[wildsagecyrus]

devastating to realize that none of my favourite characters would share my music taste

[skania]

hi! you mentioned somewhere that you thought akane offered to help aqua kill someone not because she really wanted to, but because it was the words that he wanted to hear? but later in the manga, it seems that she really is going to follow through with that plan - bringing a knife with her to “talk” to kamiki… do you still think that she said that because it was what he wanted to hear? love your blog by the way, and i’m also an akane fan so don’t get me wrong hehe TT

No worries anon! At the contrary, thanks for asking this so I can clarify!

I think that Akane's best case scenario and how far she is willing to go for Aqua aren't mutually exclusive. Back then, Aqua talked about wanting to kill Kamiki as if accomplishing that goal would set him free. That's why Akane wanted to help him.

When Akane tells him that she's willing to help him kill Kamiki, it is what Aqua needs to hear but Akane isn't making him empty promises. She does mean it. Just not in a: You want to kill someone? Cool, let me find a knife! But rather in a: If it comes down to that, and if that's what you need to be happy, you can count on me to help you in whatever way I can.

Akane doesn't actually want Aqua to kill anyone, we see that much when she's thinking that there's no way she can let Aqua meet Kamiki. Her thoughts show that she would ideally like to bring Kamiki to justice. Had it come down to murder though, I do think Akane would've lived up to her word and helped Aqua just so he doesn't have to carry that burden alone.

However, I don't think Aqua would be capable of killing Kamiki in cold blood, so it wouldn't have come to that either way lol

(I'm on my phone so I don't have the manga on me, but I may come back to this reply to add some manga panels to better explain what I mean later!)

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I don’t know what she thought I’d get out of that

[evilducks]

went on a two hour walk on the mountain behind the hotel and then there are burritos to eat and fanfictions to be read and honestly this is insane i love it so much. also it was very sunny outside when i went for my walk and i saw some very pretty flowers